Why do songs become unavailable on Apple Music?

In fact you dont pay for those songs in a streaming service. In the streaming world, the record labels and the artists own the music and can make changes that affect your library anytime. You only pay, in this case, Apple Music for the right to access these songs. This is true all across any other streaming services.

Just tried to transfer music files to new ipad Pro . Lots of greyed out songs. Deleted all Music and app

Restarted ipad . Used Imazing . and put in Airplane mode. Voila No greyed out music so far. It may be an issue with checking song names with apples data base . No contact .No issue. Intersted to see if it works for others.

This solution worked for me:

"http://shudhtech.blogspot.com/2019/04/this-song-is-not-currently-available-in.html"

I'd like to know how this is suddenly happening on my iPhone with songs that I've made myself and added to my library....

What kind of sh*te is that...??????

That's horrible, at least mine started working again once I re-synced. Waiting for some comment from Apple, haven't heard a thing.

Try Amazon.

I am having this same issue and it's driving me nuts. I've NOT unsubscribed from Apple Music at all. I've had it constantly for about 3 years and there is no issue with my account. I've noticed the songs that it won't download to my phone, but will populate ( albeit grayed out and gives me the "cannot play in your country or region" error when I have NOT left the US or changed any of those settings) in the music app, are songs that are remixes of songs I've downloaded from the artist legally, but outside iTunes. The files are compatible, but what's weird is even older files I've never had issues with won't download to my phone.

The songs will play in iTunes just fine though. This is so irritating! I just want to play my music on my phone!

Thanks for responding. I've had this issue for about 3 years - it impacts 45 of my songs on my "top 100 songs of all time" playlist. Most of them were ripped from CDs I own ... and the other songs on those albums are never impacted. After digging into this one evening I noticed the "last modified" date on the impacted songs is later than the other songs on the album from which they came. Why does a later modified date or updated meta data cause the iphone to refuse to play a track? This seems like a bug in their copyright protection efforts.

Is your suggestion I need to delete those 45 songs and re-rip them from my CDs? Any idea as to which meta data field might trigger this bug? Thanks!

Yea. I just signed up for Apple Music, and I can’t play some of my songs I had ripped from cds I bought with the error that not available in my region. I can’t even replace those songs from Apple Music, because I can’t Dl those songs on my iPhone.

Could listen to them yesterday, then signed up for Apple Music.

I thought that perhaps I could have also been using an old appleid. So I logged out, and tried logging back in with my current id. Now it simply says "unable to turn on home sharing." I am using the correct information. I then tried to sign in wt the wrong info, and it says incorrect pasword, but when I try wt the right info it just gives me the above mesage. Any idea why?

Honestly don't feel upset wt anything you wrote. Apple computers, and iPhones are very costly things. The recent update has made the ability to connect our phones wt icloud, different for different users, and this is simply unacceptable.

glad you’re making progress. I have a hunch though that if you successfully troubleshoot the home sharing, you might also resolve any underlying issues. You’d think the home sharing would be unrelated, but in my experience resolving strange anomalies (that you can easily determine your trial and error success) sometimes resolves bigger problems which are more complex. Just sayin’ :)

GS340 there are several fixes in this thread. I don't know which one wil work for you, because like all mac problems nowadays, what looks like the same problem, rarely has the same answer.

I also miss Tower Records, but smaller record stores are popping up everywhere. Also ordering Vinyl & CDs is quick, and fairly simple online. Thankfully we're are all not forced to purchase, lossy & low quality mp3's ... yet ...

Thank you for this solution. I agree the bourdon shouldn’t be on the consumer, but Apple wants us to pay for support. So in other words, there mistake makes them money. It used to be that there excellence made them profitable. Those days are gone.

Take a look over this thread. There are at least a dozen different solutions, that users had to discover on there own. No two are the same, and this problem has even stumped the Apple Store. How can this be even be possible, unless either different phones were sold, or varying updates were downloaded. Now I'm not going to outright say that this occurred because Apple is trying to push there music service, but it happened for some reason, and only Tim C. knows why.